Flash drive freezes my computer

I just bought a flash drive for my WinXP SP2 Home edition. As soon as I
inserted it, my computer froze and locked up. I've tried it in all my
additional USB ports and it remains the same. Even if I insert it prior to
boot up, Windows stops and freezes. My webcam works fine and the memory stick
light comes on, but the `New Hardware Detected' indicator doesn't even show.
I don't have anything else taking up USB ports other than my webcam. I've
tried it in other computers, not my own, and it worked fine.

This seems to be a mystery, which nobody seems to have an answer for?????

philo
Fri Mar 21 14:23:32 PDT 2008


"Vanillaman" <Vanillaman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A6456913-3E3D-4606-A749-8680A539F784@microsoft.com...
>I just bought a flash drive for my WinXP SP2 Home edition. As soon as I
> inserted it, my computer froze and locked up. I've tried it in all my
> additional USB ports and it remains the same. Even if I insert it prior to
> boot up, Windows stops and freezes. My webcam works fine and the memory
> stick
> light comes on, but the `New Hardware Detected' indicator doesn't even
> show.
> I don't have anything else taking up USB ports other than my webcam. I've
> tried it in other computers, not my own, and it worked fine.
>
> This seems to be a mystery, which nobody seems to have an answer for?????


Looks like it's defective
return it for a refund and replace it with a different brand